Premiere

Not suprized by terroist propaganda any more.

The Angel of Death rides again.

Reuters: All the news thats fit to photoshop.

To quote Carridine:

(To the tune of the final part of Mr. Bojangles:)

Mr. Green Helmet...pose.

Charles, looking forward to seeing you break 200,000 page views today...

In photo #2, why are they rushing? There's no more blood left in the body to leak out. There should be buckets of blood in photo #1 - all over the stretcher and everything...

Sure looks staged to me!

JAFLW

/What do *I* know, I'm just a dumb Engineer that's had extensive First Aid training...

Speak o' de debbil.

Charles, maybe you should post a link to the story on Green Helmet guy since there are a lot of new readers here today who might not know the story.

It's like he's the only qualified coroner in the whole freakin' country.

Or it could be that he is a Hez. official charged with maximizing the propaganda value of all casualities, and is willfully aided in this effort by Hajj and other MSM lensmen.

Geez - think they have a good reason to go after Tyre? It wouldn't take too much to put Lebanon back into the dark ages. May as well go for it.

I'VE GOT IT!
Green helmet guy is the 12th imam!

"Wherever there is blood, wherever there is a way to exploit my bretheren, there am I in their midst."

I think they need to retire that corpse prop.

Aack ! The CNN Int. reporter just said "grim milestone" again.

I'm so tired of this goofy-looking douchebag already.

Damn, this guy is EVERYWHERE...

Quite a celebrity.

I wonder if he is one of the "media relations" guys?

I guess the photo times don't matter again?

Please allow me to introduce myself
Im a man of wealth and taste
Ive been around for a long, long year
Stole many a mans soul and faith
And I was round when jesus christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But whats puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
I stuck around st. petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain
I rode a tank
Held a generals rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Ah, whats puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah...

Charles, please look carefully at the photo #2 above: it seems obviously fraudulent. How did the photographer get on the other side of the body before the ambulance crew (i.e.actors) even got to the body? Did he arrive with the crew? Or did he somehow get there before the ambulance? How did he know where they were going, then?

And look at the ground the body is lying on. Seems very clean and flat. No crater. Loose stuff lying on the dirt, as if it's been there for a while. How did the body get so damaged if the surrounding area is so noticeable undamaged? Did he fly through the air and land right at that spot, far from where the explosion happened?

I dunno -- the whole set-up has a staged air to it. And the presence of Mr. "Stage-Manager" Green Helmet guy only furthers my suspicion.

The victim is wearing BDUs. Thats not a civilian. Any body know if that is an Iranian regular's uniform?

Looks like to me both victims were wearing camos... perhaps it should have read "Two dead terrorists"?

Having green helmet on site makes you wonder how accurate those pictures are. It's sort of like "A picture is worth a thousand words and all of them are lies."

You dont have to be a regular viewer of CSI: Miami to know these are staged. Notice in the 2nd photo, the corpse is battered beyond description yet laid out like he had a cardiac on a clean and neat part of the street/sidewalk. The lazy MSM keeps buying this crap.

Perhaps Hajj could get the Raisinettes to do backgrounds for him.

/ummm, raisins.

[Link: www.lyricsfreak.com...]

My parody skills are low today but I reckon someone could write a nifty one about Green Helmet Guy based on the Beach Boy's song.

Zombie, excellent points.

#7 Just Another Four-letter Word

In photo #2, why are they rushing? There's no more blood left in the body to leak out. There should be buckets of blood in photo #1 - all over the stretcher and everything...

Sure looks staged to me!

JAFLW

/What do *I* know, I'm just a dumb Engineer that's had extensive First Aid training...

Yup. I'm just another dumb medical scientist so I don't know that there should be a hunk of arm between that shoulder and elbow in Picture 1 or that there should be a lot more blood from a freshly dead corpse, or that the buckets of blood spilling from a freshly dead corpse with it's arm torn off at the shoulder should be soaked into the ground. I also don't know that blood exposed to air happens to become extremely darkly colored within minutes so I am absolutely unaware that the "blood" stains on the clothing are much too light.

But then, I've only handled bottles of blood for a living, so I don't know any of that stuff.

Try AGAIN Green Helmet!

Ben Curtis,formerly known as Adnan Hajj, Ben Optics, Dez Stort, Will shop, and Mo R Haq, personal photographer to Osama Bin Ladin

#12 Least

"I'VE GOT IT!
Green helmet guy is the 12th imam!"

Hahahahhaha :)

26 formercorpsman

Zombie, excellent points.

Absolutely. Every single one of them right on the mark.

That ambulance sure can pull up awfully close to that body that had to have been almost directly hit to be in that many pieces.

Oh - that's right. The corpse fell to pieces when they took it out of the body bag.

/PLEASE!

Why does GHG not have gloves on?

Why is he wearing a helmet, while his helpers do not?

#21

It does not say he is a terrorist or a civilian.

They are victims.

To the LLL media any dead terrorist is a victim. A victim of colonialism, imperialism, neo-cons, just never a victim of radical Islam or socialism, or communism, or even the UN. (UN ism?)

How did that joke I heard go.

TV Reporter: It is raining here in the LA area.
Anchor Babe: How bad is it.
TV Reporter: Pretty bad. We are going to talk to some local victims of the rain.

So, this guy is a dedicated propagandist who works as a stringer for all of the wire services. Interesting. I guess this means that any picture he appears in we can just brush off as fraudulent.

That's actually helpful to know, but leads to a question: Why should anybody believe anything that comes from the MSM anymore?

Beyond that, there is no way all of these frauds could be attributed to human error, so that means the MSM must be intentionally attempting to deceive the public... and taking the side of the enemy.

Photos attributed to Ben Curtis, same as the first potential original for the fake. Coincidence?

#31 formercorp...

Why is he wearing a helmet, while his helpers do not?

To hide his bald spot?

#22 fireangel

Looks like to me both victims were wearing camos... perhaps it should have read "Two dead terrorists"

These pics are of the same one "victim." They just neatly laid the severed arm on the stretcher beside the corpse to show what good care they are taking of him. Trying to make a comparison to the special volunteers in Israel that do clean ups after suicide bombings.

Ernie Pyle is not impress.

Bagdad Bob rides again!

Where are the pictures of the Israel casualties?

Oh, I forgot. The MSM are anti-Semitic bastards .

Bring out the dead!

Reuters--What a douche bag of a news organinization. Bring 'em down, Charles, just like you helped do with Dan Rather. The world doesn't need these c*cks*ck*ing, fifth-column bastards. I hope green-helmet guy gets an IDF round between the eyes. I'd die to see that photo. I'm so angry with the media, I could sh*t blood.

Charles had the song right...

My buddies and me are getting real well known
Yeah, the bad guys know us and they leave us alone

I get around
Get around round round I get around
From town to town
Get around round round I get around
Im a real cool head
Get around round round I get around
Im makin real good bread
Get around round round I get around
I get around
Round
Get around round round ooo

1st: Is Green Helmet guy even Lebanese? Who exactly does this guy work for?

If he actually is Lebanese, what was he doing in 1983?

2nd: Why is that he keeps showing up at these particular scenes? How does he know what part of Lebanon to be in, and when to be there?

3rd: What the helmet? WTF kinda helmet is that anyway?

4th: Does this guy ever change his clothes? He's been wearing the same exact outfit for the last two weeks, (at least), this in spite of the fact that he's been handling numerous dead bodies. He's gotta be reeking something awful by now. Awful enough that if he ever falls asleep, somebody's liable to mistake him for a dead body.

EXPECT
NO
MERCY,
R

Here is the blog of the photographer who took those two snaps:

[Link: www.snappertalk.com...]

Ben Curtis, based in Egypt... seems to be mostly about equipment.

#31 formercorpsman

Why does GHG not have gloves on?

Why is he wearing a helmet, while his helpers do not?

Well now you know formercorpsman, now that you mention it Green Helmet does seem remarkably overdressed compared to everyone else.

I noticed another little thing. Of all those folks rushing up to pick up the body, only one appears to be wearing gloves at all - and he looks to have only one glove on.

WHO would be so stupid as to pick up a "victim" in that condition - dead or alive - without gloves?

EWWW - glad I don't have to touch those guys! YUKKK!

And all this time I thought Ben Curtis was Steve, The Stoner Dell Dude!

#20 zombie

And look at the ground the body is lying on. Seems very clean and flat. No crater. Loose stuff lying on the dirt, as if it's been there for a while. How did the body get so damaged if the surrounding area is so noticeable undamaged? Did he fly through the air and land right at that spot, far from where the explosion happened?

As a physician who has worked in an ER where trauma was brought in, I can say this picture is a complete fraud.

Someone whose arm gets blown off would have dropped a shitload of blood on the ground, in addition to the point that the ground ain't burned or cratered.

This gig was staged.

Later Sunday, a rocket barrage hit the northern port city of Haifa, killing three civilians, injuring more than 40 and bringing down two buildings. A crowded residential district took five or six hits.

Three hours later, Israeli warplanes attacked the Lebanese town of Qana and destroyed the launchers that fired rockets on Haifa, the army said.

An Israeli attack on Qana last week killed 29 civilians. After an inquiry, Israel said the attack was a mistake and it would not have struck the building if it new civilians were inside. But it also accused Hezbollah of shielding rocket launching sites behind civilians.

Lets digg it.

I agree with everyone who noticed the "uniform" in picture #2. My first thought was "is a terrorist considered a victim now?"

OT
Inside the new Hizbullah...
[Link: www.msnbc.msn.com...]
Hezbollah's civilian >< army

Once again we see the UN truck parked right behind the ambulance.

yeah...saw that earlier...guess he's the one willing to go from spot to spot and hold up dead children for propagandizing...

If you see him shoot him.

...oops..I was thinking other pictures of GHG...just so damn many of them.

Just a thought:

Isn't it customary in cases of clearly dead individuals to put them in body bags before placing them on the gurney?

Seem's like a much more practical option...

The Same Photog, Ben Curtis, that was at Qana. The same Green Helmet Guy. The same damn lies.

21 Visits from Reuters today!

The article that points from Drudge report only points to the LGF Home Page instead of the actual article on LGF.

You can't see the "gruesome" injuries if the victim is in a body bag. But, how many body bags do they have in stock?

/gruesome question

Here comes the Green Helmet and his crew.
their song.

The zombies were having fun, the party had just begun.

The coffin draggers were about to arrive,
With their vocal group, the crypt kicker five

They played the mash They played the monster mash
The monster mash It was a graveyard smash
They played the mash It caught on in a flash
They played the mash They played the monster mash

Do a search on yahoo news photos by 'Ben Curtis'.

news.yahoo.com...] target="_blank">

"A man carrying a pistol in his right pocket ushers residents away from the scene seconds after a double Israeli missile attack, believed to have originated from a drone, struck and killed two men on a motorcycle in a street in Tyre"

Man with a gun? From where I come from, guys ushering people around with guns are called something else, if not the law. Are these the kind of 'victims' that get tallied up as civilian casualties?

This, from the LA Times
'Back Off, Israel,' Doesn't Cut It
[Link: www.latimes.com...]

Israel is hoping to change the equation, to force Lebanon to take control of its border or accept an outside force that would do so. The tactic of striking Hezbollah has some chance of bringing that about. Stopping the attack and hoping for the best has no chance at all.

My suspicion is that the folk wearing gloves, are the placers.

They actually handle the corpse. They stage it, and regain it.

As Zombie mentioned, if this is an airstike, why is the surrounding landscape not even touched?

I went on yahoo, and see what I beleive to be another photo of the ground with blood on it, once the corpse is gone.

The energy it would take to create the trauma to that upper extremity, would most likely have to create pattern. Splatter effect if you will. The blood is just pooled there.

Look at the photo.
[Link: news.yahoo.com...]

#58 Amalie

Not answering your question but you bring up a good point; why not a body bag instead of an ambulance stretcher which you may need at any time for an injured person?

Photo #2...looks staged, I'm sure he was a farmer on his way to harvest.

Advocates of 'proportion' are just unbalanced

August 6, 2006

BY MARK STEYN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST

...Twenty-eight dead civilians in a village from which 150 Katyusha rockets have been launched against Israel doesn't seem "disproportionate" to me. What's "disproportionate" is the idea that civilian life should be allowed to proceed normally in what is, in fact, a terrorist launching platform.

But, when an army goes to war against a terrorist organization, it's like watching the Red Sox play Andre Agassi: Each side is being held to its own set of rules. When Hezbollah launches rockets into Israeli residential neighborhoods with the intention of killing random civilians, that's fine because, after all, they're terrorists and that's what terrorists do. But when, in the course of trying to resist the terrorists, Israel unintentionally kills civilians, that's an appalling act of savagery. Speaking at West Point in 2002, President Bush observed: "Deterrence -- the promise of massive retaliation against nations -- means nothing against shadowy terrorist networks with no nation or citizens to defend." Actually, it's worse than that. In Hezbollahstan, the deaths of its citizens works to its strategic advantage: Dead Israelis are good news but dead Lebanese are even better, at least on the important battlefield of world opinion. The meta-narrative, as they say, is consistent through the media's Hez-one-they-made-earlier coverage, and the recent Supreme Court judgment, and EU-U.N. efforts to play "honest broker" between a sovereign state and a genocidal global terror conglomerate: All these things enhance the status of Islamist terror and thus will lead to more of it, and ever more "disproportionately."

Do you think anyone at Al-Reuters shares Steyn's/My viewpoint? Anyone?

If you haven't done so already, read the whole thing.

#44 Chicken Kiev
Here is the blog of the photographer who took those two snaps:

Good find, Chicken. I left this comment on the photographer's blog:

Ben, you do realize that many people are doubting the authentic spontaneity of some of your recent photographs, right? In particular, this photo seems completely staged:
[Link: news.yahoo.com...]

I doubt you can admit this in a public forum, but we have read elsewhere how Hezbollah "handlers" have been either intimidating or manipulating either scared or willing Western journalists: Did Hezbollah stage manage the photo linked to above? There are various aspect of the image that seem inauthentic. And the presence of the Hezbollah guy with the green helmet who shows up in all their propaganda photos only increases the doubts of the viewers. Be honest: did you photograph a completely naturally occuring scene there, or was the whole incident carefully controlled by Hezbollah guys, who posed in certain ways and set things up to get optimal images?

Geez Charles, after looking around the blogosphere, it seems that you're [expletive deleted] famous today, congratulations!

/get any juicy mail yet?

As others have pointed out, picture #2 is obviously staged. I mean, an attack with enough force to rip off an arm (and destroy part of it) wouldn't have landed the limb right besides the body...

But then again, they needed it inside the frame of the picture, right?

Mr. Greenhelmut is everywhere. And only the LGF asks why?

#2 is awful(ly done).

MSM are their own story. Pitiful.

Ben Curtis and Adnan Hajj (photoshop guy) probably hang out together. They both took snaps of the Lebanese seacoast slicked by oil after an Israeli airstrike:

Here's Ben:
[Link: news.nationalgeographic.com...]
(caption: A layer of crude oil covers the Ramlet el-Beida public beach in Beirut, Lebanon. Much of Lebanon's coastline is now awash with crude oil after an Israeli air strike on a power plant sent 15,000 tons (13,600 metric tons) of oil leaking into the Mediterranean. Green groups are calling the oil spill the largest environmental crisis in Lebanon's history.)

Here's Adnan:
[Link: www.planetark.com...]
(caption: A fishing harbour in Byblos, north of Beirut, is covered with oil July 28, 2006. Along Lebanon's sandy beaches and rocky headlands runs a belt of black sludge, 10,000 to 30,000 tonnes of oil were spilled into the Mediterranean Sea after Israeli twice bombed a power plant.)

Green Helmet guy reminds me of "Wheres Waldo? No telling where he will show up next...

Green Helmet guy picture number one.

My question earlier, was (still is), how many dead innocent lifeless victim bodies get put face down on the stretcher?

And it looks like he's wearing camouflage. Is that right?

63 Roger

True. Everyone else has pointed out the various reasons why the photos look staged, especially the second one. Why be rushing with a stretcher to a corpse, and a particularly gruesome one at that. (the more gruesome, the better)

But what I wonder is how many body bags are stored in the areas where most of the casualties are happening?

Perhaps in some areas they may be out of body bags but then they would most likely wrap a victim in a sheet.

That is, if they cared for their dead.

Green Helmet is the Ron Jeremy of death porn!

/apologies to Ron Jeremy

Charles,

Going back to the faked al-Reuters photo, there is an interesting comment at Powerline:

[There is a] bigger point. There is NO WAY this one guy could be taking all of these pictures - look at the images and dates. Does he have a flying car? The question: is he simply a clearinghouse for Hezbollah propaganda, routed expeditiously through Reuters? Looks like they pay the guy to forward unverified images (sometimes doctored or staged, as you've helped explain) taken by others.

More research is clearly warranted, and Reuters apparently is not inclined to introsepction on the subject.

Jamie Irons

Keep denying, deniers!

In the picture with the victim terrorist lying on the ground we see the white civil defence ambulance with its doors open. Ready, I assume, to be loaded up with the body on the streacher. Notice it has a single rear tire.

In the pic where they have loaded up the body and are rushing him somewhere, notice the truck behind has 2 tires and is a dual axle. So why on earth did they not load this guy in the ambulance to begin with?

Where they taking him on a neighborhood parade? Hey everybody! Look at the dead guy!

Weekend at Bernies: Lebanon

Geepers @ 73

My question earlier, was (still is), how many dead innocent lifeless victim bodies get put face down on the stretcher?

Over here, none. Over there in Crazy Hiz'bollah land? Who knows?

# 65 J

"Right now, Israel's best chance of any decent press would seem to be if Mel Gibson flies in and bawls out his waiter as a "f---ing Jew.''"

Mark is a freakin' genius ...
:-)

Thinking out loud...

Ben Curtis and Adnaan Hajj Ali either work together or are the same guy.

Green Helmet Guy, (still havent found where the helmet came from), and White T-Shirt Guy are Ben and/or Adnaans handlers from HizBalla.

or,

GHG and WTSG actually are Ben and Adnaan swapping starring roles in their very own manfactured photo docudrama.

IMBELLISH
THIS,
R

Geez Charles, after looking around the blogosphere, it seems that you're [expletive deleted] famous today, congratulations!

Hmmm, the Dems realllyyy want to win this fall and in 2008. And their hatred of the President is almost disturbing.

[Dave has a vision of this fall and fall of 2008]. I think LGF may be really useful when those nasty allegations come up unexpectedly right before election week.

A little fact checking may be in order at that time. I see the MoveOn/org crowd trying some funny business.

Being the Hezbollah undertaker, he delivers bodies when the order is put out. When ever Israel drops a bomb, this guy probably gets an order to deliver so many bodies at the same time the press is notified. Wonder if someone might be able to find the same victim at two different “massacres.”

Well, at least the UN is there to oversee the propaganda situation in picture #2.

#74 Amalie

Perhaps in some areas they may be out of body bags but then they would most likely wrap a victim in a sheet.

That is, if they cared for their dead.

They're handy for photo ops.
They don't care too awfully much for the living.

78 hous bin pharteen

Okay, I guess I not supposed to laugh on this thread.

must.not.laugh.

Ghoul Girl

Guys, if you notice as well.

If this is supposed to be mass hysteria, why would only one guy put gloves on?

Why would the 4 other with hands on the stetcher forget to?

If you notice in photo #2, the glove guy is the only one with hands on the body.

AS WELL, anyone look at the time stamps of the pictures?

I figured it out.

Put a moustache on the guy at this link for the answer: http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0120815/Ss/0120815/ 1-1.jpg?path=gallery&path_key=0120815

Not sure if it's been clearly pointed out yet, but it's the same body in both photos -- and yes he's most certainly wearing a uniform --

"victim" -- InDeed!
:-)

85 JD

Hi JD..

It's been a real eye opener, these photos, on how they treat their dead, at least the Hiz'bollah in these photos. It is in the middle of a war zone and so the families of these victims could be dead themselves or injured not able to be there.

Very sad. Very heinous.

#80 Buckaroo

Mark is a freakin' genius ...
:-)

Isn't he though?
He'll be on the radio tomorrow and Tuesday from Australia.
STEYN DOWN UNDER
If you're near a radio in the general vicinity of the southern hemisphere today, I'll be on Counterpoint with Michael Duffy on Australia's Radio National at 4pm Monday and on Breakfast with Alan Jones on 2GB Sydney on Tuesday morning. (All times local: Tuesday morning is approximately a week on Thursday Eastern time, or the second Monday after Whitsun GMT.)

Green Helmet Guy: Abdel Qader
[Link: www.prebleny.com...]

Hizballah’s Body Handler Photographed in 1996
[Link: www.prebleny.com...]

Stephen Colbert Wikipedia Prank Backfires
[Link: www.prebleny.com...]

#47

I agree. I was a FF/Paramedic for many moons so I am pretty familiar with what a scene should look like. If this guy was the victim of a bomb or missile strike he is supposed to be suffering blast trauma. But no blood, no wreckage, no crater? Whatever happened to this guy did not happen where the body is sitting.

Further, I never found a limb just sitting next to someone unless the incident happened somewhere to contain pieces (like a car or a building). When you blow something or someone in an open area like a street the pieces tend to get spread around.

Forgetting about experience and training for a second... just consider some good old physics. An explosion with enough energy to rip a limb off is also going to move the lighter limb away from the heavier body.

Devil in a Green Helmet . . .

Why does the ambulance have any English writing on it? In Lebanon, aren't the main languages are French and Arabic?

And why is there a Red Cross on the ambulance? Shouldn't it be a Red Crescent?

Is the ambulance just another prop?

Saw this in the comments at JW . . .seems Reuters is at it AGAIN!

From the blog Drinking from Home - Extreme Makeover in Beirut

#58 Amalie

You can't see the "gruesome" injuries if the victim is in a body bag. But, how many body bags do they have in stock?

From the looks of things a trash bag would have done for this guy. And by rights that stretcher should be burned.

I went on yahoo, and see what I beleive to be another photo of the ground with blood on it, once the corpse is gone.

The energy it would take to create the trauma to that upper extremity, would most likely have to create pattern. Splatter effect if you will. The blood is just pooled there.

I agree about the splatter effect. That would apply even if the vic's arm was blown off exactly where he lay.

You may be correct that about the picture you referenced showing blood on the ground after the body in the above pictures was removed. Note thought that this blood does not show in the picture that shows the body in situ.

It looks to me like far too small an amount of blood, though, for an arm being ripped away from a shoulder. That would tear some major arteries and lead to a pumping, fire hose effect that would splash blood everywhere for some distance around and the vic bleeding out within minutes. Been there, done that. That is, however, about the size mess a bag of donor blood would make.

I think this is completely staged.

#90 Amalie

Very sad. Very heinous.

True to form, sadly.

This Ben Curtis guy must be the angel of death. It seems like every photo he takes he is there before emergency services! Such as the photograph of the two terrorists blown off their motorcycle by an IAF UAV.

Or, he could be working hand-in-glove with the Hezzies to get "good news shots".

I know this is a silly question, but are any of the other guys in the Green Helmet Guy photos popping up regularly as well? And if they are, are they all part of the Hizbullah cleanup crew?

Inquiring minds would love to know.

Reuters and AP found a very unlucky woman whose house was destroyed twice in different parts of Beirut on two different dates.

[Link: drinkingfromhome.blogspot.com...]

And there's no posing here surely.

[Link: drinkingfromhome.blogspot.com...]

jester6
Compare those bodies from the morgue and the bloodless scenes to on-the-scene photos from Ogrish [STRONG CAUTION], etc.

No comparison.

97 galloping granny

I agree with you, the photo looks staged. I'm of the belief that the Qana photos were also staged to some degree and that this is probably the tip of the iceberg. I also believe that Reuters is in some way connected to this, this charade, that they may be a propaganda arm of Islamists.

OT:

I just posted the [Link: www.JerusalemOnline.com...] news for this evening.

(Full disclosure: I am on the news team, and did tonight's ep, with translation, editing and voiceover).

It was a bitch to write tonight's show - the Haifa Katyusha attack was just before the show, so the story kept changing throughout the script...

The video editor and I were stunned trying to keep up with the narritive - and the body count.

And I am professionally thoroughly disgusted over the Reuters photo scandal.

Complaints, comment and kudos:

Dave
[Link: betbender.blogspot.com...]

Hey, Ace brought this up, but have our photoshop experts taken a look at this picture by Hajj? I mean this just can't be real unless he threw the Koran in there and lit it on fire.

100 Lawhawk

Um, yeah . . .see the link to the most unlucky homeowner of Beirut mentioned #96.

Is that ambulance in more than one photo? Different days?

J.D

And it's all over a small piece of land, an obsession that reaches back over a thousand years..

via The Corner...

Religion's Role [Cliff May]
Omar Fadhil (of Iraq the Model fame) writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer:

[W]hile religion has always played an important role in prior Arab-Israeli wars, this time it has moved to center stage. It is the theological aspect of this conflict that makes it so explosive and could lead to its expansion.

As an observer of the conflict from Iraq, I see the signs that Iran may be starting to launch the mullahs' version of an Armageddon, exploiting the religious beliefs of devout Shiites in the region. While this may sound more the stuff of prophecies than international relations, it is important to understand - especially in countries such as Lebanon and Iraq that have large Shiite populations.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran and the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Iraq are both devout believers in the "Imam" of Shia Islam. Also known as "Imam Mehdi" - hence the name of Sadr's militia, the Mehdi Army - he was the 12th grandson of the Prophet Muhammad. According to certain branches of Shia Islam, the return of the "hidden Imam" must be prepared by his followers, in a particular sequence of events. Chaos and rampant violence in the region are supposed to be among signs leading to the main battle in which the Imam will return to lead Shiites to victory.

More here (Is Hezbollah launching Iran's Armageddon?).

101 danS

Reuters and AP found a very unlucky woman whose house was destroyed twice in different parts of Beirut on two different dates.

now that's funny...

# 100 lh

The guy in the white T-shirt in Photo 2 of this thread may be also in a NYT photo that appeared in an EU Referendum post (the now-famous "expose" of Green Helmet Guy), but otherwise they apprear to not be part of his past "entourages" ...

Mr. Green Helmet doesn't seem to have realized that his world-famous "trademark" is now...Israeli sniper bait.

I think Mr. Qader is a vision of loveliness in his helmet. However, I think his helmet would look even lovelier with a couple of holes in it, oh say, 7.62mm in diameter.

#108 Amalie
The land is the excuse. If they had it, they still would not stop.

#87 formercorpsman -"AS WELL, anyone look at the time stamps of the pictures?"
Eggsellent pick up there! At 12:01 PM they are "rushing" to put the body on the stretcher, but at 10:39 AM he's already on the stretcher!
Whadda they do, put him the stretched and then take him off again?!
BOGUS!

#106 saywhat?

Saw the link, and I've got a very plausible reason for the happenstance occurrences. The following is simply a guess/supposition/random thought: She really did own multiple properties in Lebanon that were hit by the IAF.

But, as paul harvey would say, here's the rest of the story. Dollars to donuts she's providing shelter to Hizbullah and therefore those buildings were hit to eliminate Hizbullah. Now, let's find out where else she's been. /end supposition/thinking outloud.

Ass' o' shia' ted Press is at it again. Spewing lies and propaganda for N’ ass’ rAllah and Hiz’ butt’ Allah! However this time they have overplayed their hand with GHG. What a bunch of donkeys asses. Classic islamic slap-on-the-forehead move!

Recycling bodies is a highly efficient method for seeding the body count.

Recommended for lying, baby-killing terrorists.

#112 mark1957

Hold your fire there pal. I think we'd much love to have a chat with 'em. Ya' know. Real friendly like. Maybe supply 'em with a wee bit of alcohol and a few smokes. Find out who he's been hanging with, who he really works for, where he's been going, and how he always manages to get to every major airstrike within minutes of the cameras. Suck him dry as an intel source.

Especially about who he's been hanging with and where he goes. I think that would be quite illuminating.

#103 Amalie 8/6/2006 04:01PM PDT

97 galloping granny

I agree with you, the photo looks staged. I'm of the belief that the Qana photos were also staged to some degree and that this is probably the tip of the iceberg. I also believe that Reuters is in some way connected to this, this charade, that they may be a propaganda arm of Islamists.

A little more than that I think:

From the article previous thread re Hajj losing his photography job over Fake #1 -

“The photographer has denied deliberately attempting to manipulate the image, saying that he was trying to remove dust marks and that he made mistakes due to the bad lighting conditions he was working under,” said Moira Whittle, the head of public relations for Reuters.

But as someone pointed out later in that thread - Moira Whittle works for al-Jizz.

104 Dave Bender

Hi Dave!

Thanks for the link to your newscast. I watched it and was impressed by the fact that I am able to see via my computer the events that are unfolding over in your country and Lebanon as well as the reaction of the Syrian Ambassador. (Bastards, those Syrians)

Thanks again..

And Best wishes and prayers..

By contrast, the photos of the Hezbollah rocket victims today show only respectfully blanket-covered bodies, no faces or gaping wounds visible, some remains being collected from trees with dignity. No hysterical faked-up "emergency" "rescue" going on, just the sincere grieving of friends and comrades. In short, no propaganda photo-op here, folks. Just dead Israelis.

#102

Good point. I completely forgot about those sites.

To anyone who doesn't quite understand what people look like when you take them apart you can go to these sites:

Ogrish.com and Rotten.com.

These are very graphic and not for the faint of heart. But if your only exposure to trauma is throw Hollywood's artistic license it might be a good education.

#101 danS 8/6/2006 04:01PM PDT

Reuters and AP found a very unlucky woman whose house was destroyed twice in different parts of Beirut on two different dates.

In high school I read a book about several people who survived Hiroshima (topical today, yes?) only to refugee to Nagasaki, yet survived again.

In World War II, Kilroy was everywhere. Green Helmet Ghoul is the new Kilroy!

Reuters and AP found a very unlucky woman whose house was destroyed twice in different parts of Beirut on two different dates.

[Link: drinkingfromh...]

And there's no posing here surely.

[Link: drinkingfromh...]

That poor terrorist Hizballah shill deluded woman!

113 JD

So true, JD.. the land is an excuse. If they succeeded in killing all the Jews, who would be next, because I have a feeling they need someone to eliminate, someone to hate..

#118,

Hold your fire there pal. I think we'd much love to have a chat with 'em. Ya' know. Real friendly like.

Especially about who he's been hanging with and where he goes. I think that would be quite illuminating.

Question: What could he provide the Israelis that's different from what they could beat out of any other Adnan, Mohammed, or Osama?

119 galloping granny

There has always been a skew in Reuters, sometimes subtle, sometimes stark, when it comes to being anti-Israel and anti-US.

#120 Amalie:

Thanks for the kind words and take care. The same goes to the rest'a youse utes, too...

Dave
[Link: betbender.blogspot.com...]

128 Amalie

A skew? I thought it was more like a right angle~

# 126 Am

Well, they've been killing Maronites and Copts for decades so I'm sure they would move up the list ...
:-(

# 129 D B

"take care" Ok, but dude, we're not sitting on rocket landing sites!
:-0

130 m

It's an angle alright...

/hey there, m

It's time for the IDF to pay some special attention to this jackass

131 Buck

Someone will always be on their list, after all Mein Kampf is preferred reading..

What I want to know is who he knocked off to get the cool-looking green helmet and orange vest. And who does he talk to on his walkie-talkie? Does he use that to line up the next photo-op?

So many questions. So few answers.

Photo #1:

Dual axle truck in rear appears to be of a military configuration and somewhat new or well maintained. Wheels are clean, (on a dusty street no less), the tires all match and show little tread wear. A photographer/Kodak Fiend’s head is cleverly cropped out of the picture directly in front of the trucks wheels, (as Ben is credited for this one, can we assume this to be a headless Adnaan circling the scene?).

Green Helmet Guy actually appears to be less than helpful in this scene. His right hand placed on one stretcher-bearers arm and his left on the front rail of the stretcher itself, as if to halt forward momentum, perhaps to allow Ben to get his shot?

Photo #2:

The “Civil Defence (sic) Ambulance” in the scene is the rather common Chevy/GM pick-up version, not so well maintained (tire shows considerable tread wear and massive amounts of white paint overspray), also known in the West Bank and Gaza as armored personnel carriers. Single rear axle with standard GM heavy duty light truck bolt pattern. The truck behind the “ambulance” is a heavy duty Mercedes Unimog, 4x6 or 6x6 wheel drive. As noted previously by other Lizards, it’s clearly wearing UN markings on its passenger door.

Both Photos: Dead guy is definitely wearing what’s left of a uniform. Could be terrorist, could be Lebanese army. Lack of blood on the scene is difficult to explain, although the ground under the victim appears to be rather baked, possible very very small air burst/spontaneous combustion effect? Both photos are carefully cropped to delete contextual area around the scene, but farthest edges of area appear to be untouched and, in fact, heavily traveled.

===

Why are they running these photos? Who paid for them? Who exactly is Green Helmet Guy?

SONATA
ARTICA,
R

extrabob wheres primarybob?

#128 Amalie

119 galloping granny

There has always been a skew in Reuters, sometimes subtle, sometimes stark, when it comes to being anti-Israel and anti-US.

Well yes, I agree. I do, however, fail to understand how one woman can hold executive positions in two international companies that are supposedly unrelated simultaneously.

Hiya Amalie!

Here's an earlier picture of him!

#119 galloping granny - so she works for Al-Jizz and Al-Reuters? There's no inconsistancy in both of those "new's organizations" bias and inability to tell the truth (or for that matter probable inability to spell journalism, much less practice it honestly). I'll bet she works for both and also "moonlights" for AFP or AP!

In photo 2, I noticed two small cup-like flowerpot shaped things on the ground, near the victim's head. Any ideas?

#52 - hous bin pharteen

Once again we see the UN truck parked right behind the ambulance

Green Helmet, Blue Helmet...
Yeah, it's a symbiotic relationship, isn't it?

jester6,

From your link.

July 29, 2006
Butcher's customer cuts off hand "for Allah"
Last Saturday, a customer entered a Fairfax county, Virginia, market to purchase two chickens and goat meat. As the butcher entered a walk-in freezer to fill the order, the customer proceeded to cut off his left had with a meat saw. The customer then ran down the store's center aisle and into the parking lot, leaving a trail of blood and yelling repeatedly that he was "not a terrorist." Outside, the man announced that he had used the meat saw to cut off his hand "for Allah."

Rescue workers arrived shortly afterwards and took the man, and his detached hand, to Inova Fairfax Hospital. Dan Schmidt, a spokesman for the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department, said the man had mental health problems.

"We thought it was fake," a witness said of the limb. He said he heard the man mumbling angrily in a mixture of English and Urdu about working in the area and his children attending school here.

"He said, 'I did this for Allah' -- God," the witness said.

I saw this photo, post-body... just a red spot on the pavement in the shape of a body... *gag* I knew "Green Helmut" was behind this...

[Link: news.yahoo.com...]

Smoke billows following an Israeli bombardment on the southern suburbs of Beirut. Eleven people died in the deadliest rocket attack on Israel since it launched its war on Hezbollah, while big powers at the UN tried to persuade both sides to back a resolution to end the 26-day-old conflict.(AFP/Ramzi Haidar)

Ah, Israel launched this war...

#91 ... If you want to hear Mark Steyn on the internet, you can get 2GB in Sydney via this website:

www.mikesradioworld.com

click on news/talk stations and 2GB is on their menu of stations

#25 MandyManners

Round round get around
I get around
Yeah
Get around round round I get around
I get around
Get around round round I get around
From town to town
Get around round round I get around
I'm Green Helmet Head
Get around round round I get around
I'm media jihad

I'm gettin bugged driving back and forth from Qana to Tyre.
I gotta set up the scenes for the guys from the wires.

Adnan Hajj and me are getting too well known.
Yeah, the Lizards found out and they won't leave us alone.

[Chorus]
I get around...

We always take my truck with the reefer in back.
So we have plenty of bodies at the scene of attack.

None of the press cause trouble; we've got them in fright
of cutting heads off right after prayers Friday night.

[Chorus]

#124 extrabob 8/6/2006 04:15PM PDT

In World War II, Kilroy was everywhere. Green Helmet Ghoul is the new Kilroy

No, Kilroy was _funny_.

I'll personally send $100 to the Israeli sniper that offs this Green Helmut asshat.

149 vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)

I'll personally send $100 to the Israeli sniper that offs this Green Helmut asshat.

Better put a sarc tag in there vet_Missing_Parts. The FBI watches this blog and if the SOB gets knocked off they'll come looking for you for hiring a hit man!

The FBI watches this blog and if the SOB gets knocked off they'll come looking for you for hiring a hit man!

Let 'em. It will give me a chance to ask them why we didn't knock him off ourselves.

/evil laugh

Damn, It's getting good in the blogosphere...some serious debunking going on round' here.

galloping granny,

I'll personally vouch for smit's anti-idiotarion credentials.

You have to be careful around here. many people go way back and make old inside jokes.

In the "good old days", crazy people actually posted here, now it's sarcasm.

#153 Geepers

I figures as much - just didn't want to let it go unchallenged. We wouldn't want al-Reuters to think they had a loophole.

Here's my parody...

Round round get around
I get around
Yeah
Get around round round I get around
I get around
Get around round round I get around
From town to town
Get around round round I get around
Im a turban head
Get around round round I get around
Im makin falafel bread

Im gettin bugged driving up and down the same old strip
I gotta finda new place where Hezbolla is hip

My buddies and me are getting real well known
Yeah, the Joos know us and they hammer it home

I get around
Get around round round I get around
From town to town
Get around round round I get around
Im a turban head
Get around round round I get around
Im makin real good bread
Get around round round I get around
I get around
Round
Get around round round ooo
Wah wa ooo
Wah wa ooo
Wah wa ooo

We always take my goat cause its never been beat
And weve never missed yet with the Jhiadis we meet

None of the guys go steady cause it wouldnt be right
To leave their best camel home now on saturday night

I get around
Get around round round I get around
From town to town
Get around round round I get around
Im a turban head
Get around round round I get around
Im makin falafel bread
Get around round round I get around
I get around
Round
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

Round round get around
I get around
Yeah
Get around round round I get around
Get around round round I get around
Wah wa ooo
Get around round round I get around
Oooo ooo ooo
Get around round round I get around
Ahh ooo ooo
Get around round round I get around
Ahh ooo ooo
Get around round round I get around
Ahh ooo ooo

On photo #2

Emergency workers rush to remove the body of a victim of an Israeli missile strike in Tyre, southern Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2006. Israel continued its bombardment of Tyre and surrounding areas Sunday and its assault on southern Lebanon. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Getty Images has the same scene, but notes that the guy was alive when found.

TYRE, LEBANON - AUGUST 6: (EDITOR'S NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT) Lebanese paramedics arrive to transport a seriously injured Lebanese man after he was hit by a missile believed to have been fired from an Israeli drone aircraft August 6, 2006 in Tyre, southern Lebanon. The man was mortally wounded on a main street when the aircraft fired two missiles. He was alive when he was transported by Lebanese paramedics, but died moments after arriving at the hospital. (Photo by Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)

[Link: cache.gettyimages.com...]
[Link: editorial.gettyimages.com...]

Nice to know that they waited until the tarveling mortician arrived... Green Helmet is in the Di Lauro pic.

Repeat!

Other photo-journalists say the man was alive before Green Helmet the traveling mortician got to him.

Here is what real blood looks like at the scene of an emergency -

Just changed it for our "friend"

Round round get around
I get around
Yeah
Get around round round I get around
I get around
Get around round round I get around
From town to town
Get around round round I get around
Im Green Helmet head
Get around round round I get around
Im makin falafel bread

Im gettin bugged driving up and down the same old strip
I gotta finda new place where Hezbolla is hip

My buddies and me are getting real well known
Yeah, the Joos know us and they hammer it home

I get around
Get around round round I get around
From town to town
Get around round round I get around
Im Green Helmet head
Get around round round I get around
Im makin falafel bread
Get around round round I get around
I get around
Round
Get around round round ooo
Wah wa ooo
Wah wa ooo
Wah wa ooo

We always take my goat cause its never been beat
And weve never missed yet with the Jhiadis we meet

None of the guys go steady cause it wouldnt be right
To leave their best camel home now on saturday night

I get around
Get around round round I get around
From town to town
Get around round round I get around
Im Green Helmet head
Get around round round I get around
Im makin falafel bread
Get around round round I get around
I get around
Round
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

Round round get around
I get around
Yeah
Get around round round I get around
Get around round round I get around
Wah wa ooo
Get around round round I get around
Oooo ooo ooo
Get around round round I get around
Ahh ooo ooo
Get around round round I get around
Ahh ooo ooo
Get around round round I get around
Ahh ooo ooo

Amalie (#79),

none.

But there's still plenty of room for doubt, right?

[sends picture to be published]

#156 PETN

What the heck is going on?

Getty Image 71595583 and Image 71595544 appear to be the exact same image.

Except one caption says it is of a Katushka rocket being fired at Israel, and the other caption says it is incoming fire from Israel.

It isn't unusual to find a problem image, anymore, it is finding one that shows the truth.

#161 Silhouette

Getty Image 71595583 and Image 71595544 appear to be the exact same image.

Except one caption says it is of a Katushka rocket being fired at Israel, and the other caption says it is incoming fire from Israel.

Open each image, one includes a Getty Editor correction to the direction of fire... A little odd that the photographer couldn't tell which direction the missiles were traveling.

Well, Lebanese rescue workers do in fact wear something that resembles a uniform, wear mask, gloves and bring the dead out in body bags rather than in a parade for the cameras. Just not when Green Helmet is around.

#162 PETN

Yes, I see that now. But both images are still available.

"Green Helmet is in the Di Lauro pic."

A swarm of Kodakfiends? Does HizbAlloh issue pagers with its press creds?

The Di Lauro pic shows far more area context, which might explain why it didn't get nearly as much media exposure.

There are absolutely no blast effects anywhere near a military uniformed body that has been very obviously blasted.

Local traffic continues on as if nothing is happening, they've seen this shop before...

AWAKEN
THE
GUARDIAN,
R

Check out this media frenzy - at least six cameras in nice and tight with Green Helmet.

[Link: cache.gettyimages.com...]

Tyre, LEBANON: Photojournalists take photos as Lebanese civil defence members remove the body of a Lebanese civilian killed in an Israeli air strike that targeted his vehicle in the southern port city of Tyre, 06 August 2006. Israeli combat jets pounded villages in south Lebanon today, killing at least six people, hours after the UN Security Council began debating a new resolution to bring a halt to the 26-day war. Lebanon swiftly rejected the Franco-US draft because it failed to call for an immediate Israeli withdrawal from its soil, while Israel state warned its devastating offensive would last until the resolution took effect. AFP PHOTO/HASSAN AMMAR (Photo credit should read HASSAN AMMAR/AFP/Getty Images)

#156 PETN Sandwich

On photo #2

[Link: editorial.get...]

Nice to know that they waited until the tarveling mortician arrived... Green Helmet is in the Di Lauro pic.

VERY interesting pictures you found there PETN.

Pic 1, 71595516 - look at the first picture on the left in the 6th row down from the top. Shows our vic in the same spot "before rescue" as above, but from a different angle.

Read the caption -

TYRE, LEBANON - AUGUST 6: (EDITOR'S NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT) A Lebanese man lies seriously injured on the ground after he was hit by a missile believed to have been fired from an Israeli drone aircraft August 6, 2006 in Tyre, southern Lebanon. The man was mortally wounded on a main street when the aircraft fired two missiles. He was alive when he was transported by Lebanese paramedics, but died moments after arriving at the hospital. (Photo by Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)

This picture and a couple of others in this series give a much wider angle of view - and nowhere is there a crater.

If you have the stomach for it, go on to the next page and look at a couple of closeup of the vic in the "ER" - he looks like his entire upper body has been burned beyond recognition, the face almost looks like the skin has been stripped off. And yet - nowhere at the scene was there any evidence of a crater or a fire. Our victim apparently suffered a near miraculous dead hit that injured no one and nothing other than he himself. Even a small paper cup near the body isn't burned or even smashed.

While you're over on page 2 looking at those close ups, pay attention to the blood spatter on the floor. That is what blood looks like if, for example, a test tube full of blood was dropped vertically onto the floor. Or poured, since there is no glass.

That blood did not come off our vic though - look at the pristine white sheet. And notice that there is no droplet trail between the splatter and the guerney.

I know that there is at least one ER doc posting here, so I'll let him comment on what he thinks of the "ER" setup. My two cents is that is seems pretty bare of standard equipment (even in a small poorly equiped ER) and there is a noticable absence of all the things you would expect to be thrown around while trying to save the life of someone arriving in this condition. For that matter, these "emergency workers" didn't even try to get an IV in the guy before putting him in the ambulance and stashed him in face down - on the most damaged part of his body.

I think these are yet one more example of Hizballahwood dramatization. FAKE.

I doubt the "green helmet" guy is Baghdad BOB but he does have the look of an al Jazeera reporter,
orchastrating the shot ?

Where's Waldo Green Helmet Guy?

#168- Airedale: check out the analysis at BrainSurgeryWithSpoons...

GreenHelmet gets NAILED!

Perhaps Mr. Green Helmet, the world famous "Traveling Man" carries his own set of body (Props so to speak) with him just in case some scenery fill is needed! After all, that could be his mission in life just before he blows himself up.

I wonder if GREEN HELMET GUY isn't a Mortician.

Like a mortician who brings around the bodies for photographing.

Charles's link to "Photo 2" is broken.

#66 Zombie's link is broken.
#167 both Granny's links are gone.

Are these photos being yanked?

I did find this: [Link: us.news1.yimg.com...]

But I can no longer view the individual photos.

Is this business as usual or weird?

#173 Sidtara

I just noticed the same thing. It's 1:54 a.m. CST. How long until Charles's first link is severed?

So Green Helmet Guy is the only civil defence guy in Lebanon... and they have only one ambulance (# 125). And he always travels with his photographer. Maybe his job is that of choreographer or his contract with Hizbolshits is to be included in all (virtually all) rescue photos.